1. Objective and Scope
Material creation in D&A APAC’s scope is to create only ZERS (Industrial supplies) and ZHIB (General supplies) in WP2_400 system
Views to be created
- Basic data1
- Additional view
- Purchasing view
- Purchase order text view
2. Material validation
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1 | Select “ERP – Production – WP2” by double clicking on the ERP – Production icon |
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2 | Click or press “Enter” on keyboard” |
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3 | Insert T-code “MM03” and press “Enter” on keyboard |
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4 | Checking duplication of material by clicking | Checking duplication based on description |
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5 | Copy materiel description from the given template to ‘Materiel description’ in tap "Material Number/Material Description" | You can put * in between space of material description for expand your search |
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6 | Click to close if not found duplication | If there is duplication in the system, please go to step #7 If there is no duplication, please go to step #13 |
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7 | Double click on ‘Material Code’ you found that material description is same as your search |
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8 | Material code will appear in ‘Material’ field, press “Enter” on your keyboard |
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9 | Check ‘Base Unite of Measure and ‘Material Group’ | If these 2 field are different from template, it is considered as not duplication, please go to step #13 If these 2 field are same, please go to step #10 | |
10 | Click to check material type |
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11 | Check “Material type” | If material type is same as template, please advise this material code to request to use If not, you can create new material code | |
12 | Click to close the window |
3. Material code creation
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1 | Insert T-code "/nmm01" and click “Enter” on keyboard |
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2 | Select “Chemical Industry” in ‘Industry sector’ | ||
3 | Select either “/General supplies” or “/Industrial supplies” in ‘Material Type’ and then press “Enter” on keyboard | In the template, requester will provide codes below ZERS = Industrial supplies ZHIB = General supplies | |
4 | Click |
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5 | Click in front of views below -Basic Data 1 -Basic Data 2 -Purchasing -Purchase Order Text | If you want to save this views as default, you can click (#5a) to save this as a default value When you create new material, these view will be selected automatically | |
6 | Click |
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7 | Insert ‘Material description’ | It must be Capital letter and has 1 space between words | |
8 | Insert ‘Base Unit of Measure’ | Provided by requester | |
9 | Insert ‘Material group’ | Provided by requester | |
10 | Insert “WA” in ‘Division” | “WA” is default value for this field | |
11 | Click |
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12 | Insert “ZH”, “KO”, “DE”, “FR”, “IT”, “JA”, “PL”, “PT”, “SK” and “ES” in ‘Language’ field | “EN” in the first line is generated automatically with material description | |
13 | Copy material description from “EN” to “ZH” until “ES” | If requester requires 3rd language, you can insert 3rd language in specific language | |
14 | Click to go back |
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15 | Click to expand the list | ||
16 | Select “Purchasing” |
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17 | Put “0002” in Purchasing value key” | ||
18 | Click to expand the list | ||
19 | Select “Purchase order text” | If there is an error message
You can press enter on keyboard until it disappears |
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20 | Copy Material description and paste it into ‘Purchase order text’ | If there are other languages to maintain go to step #21 If there is only English, go to step #25 |
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21 | Click | ||
22 | Select language you want to create text in | If it is Chinese, please select Chinese not Chinese trad. | |
23 | Click to confirm |
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24 | Copy 3rd language of Material description and paste it into ‘Purchase order text’ | ||
25 | Click to save |
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26 | Once you create new material, you will receive message that new material code is created |





















